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New feature lets anyone with a paid Slack account to send message requests to any Slack user in the world (with or without a paid account) The objective of this feature was to turn Slack into one such platform over which anyone can connect with people they work with, regardless of the different companies they work for. The update that was launched to benefit users, ended up becoming an easy way of abusing, threatening, and harassing others. The new feature was actually in 2020 that Slack first implemented Slack Connect.